Note to Congresscritters: reading someone his rights informs him of his rights. It does not grant them, for he already has the right to remain silent, &c. You’d almost suspect we’d written this down somewhere in a kind of founding document and refined it through the courts.

All refusing to mirandize a suspect does is foul up the eventual prosecution. You should have to know this if you’re a Representative.

(3) Barack Obama, on John McCain, after the 2008 White House meeting on the breaking financial crisis: